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James E. Casto
From the time settlers first pushed into the Ohio Valley, floods were an accepted fact of life. After each flood, people shoveled the mud from their doors and set about…
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Founded in 1871 by railroad tycoon Collis P. Huntington, the city of Huntington has a dramatic and colorful past. The mystery of the daring 1875 holdup of the town’s premier…
Founded in 1871 by Collis P. Huntington, the rail tycoon’s namesake city thrived as a gateway to the coalfields of southern West Virginia. The city’s earliest leaders included Mayor Rufus…
Wayne County, West Virginia, was established on January 18, 1842, from part of Cabell County and named for Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne. The state’s westernmost county, it lies at the…
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Established in 1809, Cabell County is located in West Virginia’s Mid-Ohio Valley. When rail tycoon Collis P. Huntington pushed the tracks of his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway across the mountains…
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Coal was mined in Southern West Virginia even before the state’s birth in 1863 but was mostly consumed within a few miles of where it was dug. When the railroads…
In 1837, the people of Guyandotte, then a village on the Virginia frontier, resolved to open a school for their sons and daughters. Tradition says local lawyer John Laidley convinced…
In the late 1860s, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) pushed its first tracks westward from Virginia’s Tidewater region across the mountains into what was then the new state of…
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To get a personal look at what it is like to work on the Ohio River, newspaperman James E. As engaging as it is informative, Towboat on the Ohio tells…
